A Preschool based intervention to reduce Early Childhood Caries in a District of Sri Lanka: A Quasi-experimental Study.

IF 0.9 4区医学 Q3 DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE

Community dental health Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI:10.1922/CDH_00076Gunasinghe06

K A M M Gunasinghe, M S D Wijesinghe, N C Ratnayake

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Abstract

Objective: Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is prevalent among preschool children. The aim was to assess the effectiveness of an intervention to modify family-level determinants of caries (i.e. maternal parenting style, oral health-related self-efficacy and oral health-related knowledge) via preschool teachers, to improve the child level determinants of ECC (dietary sugar consumption, oral hygiene pattern, dental attendance pattern).

Basic research design: Quasi-experimental study.

Setting: Preschools in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka.

Participants: Preschoolers and their mothers/caregivers.

Interventions: Delivered via preschool teachers to 200 children and their caregivers.

Main outcome measures: Maternal parenting style, oral health related self-efficacy and oral health related knowledge, parentally reported dietary sugar consumption, oral hygiene pattern, dental attendance pattern and ECC.

Results: Maternal oral health related knowledge, authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting and oral health related self-efficacy, maternally reported sugar consumption, sweetened drink consumption, tooth brushing frequency, dental visiting during the past six months and receipt of treatment better in the intervention group than the control group post-intervention.

Conclusions: The intervention shows potential in modifying family level determinants of ECC.

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基于学前教育的干预措施，减少斯里兰卡一个地区的幼儿龋齿：准实验研究。

目的：儿童早期龋齿（ECC）在学龄前儿童中很普遍。目的是评估通过学前教师采取干预措施，改变家庭层面的龋病决定因素（即母亲养育方式、口腔健康相关自我效能和口腔健康相关知识），从而改善儿童层面的龋病决定因素（膳食糖摄入量、口腔卫生模式、牙科就诊模式）的效果：基本研究设计：准实验研究：基本研究设计：准实验研究：干预措施：干预措施：通过学前班教师向 200 名儿童及其照顾者提供：主要结果测量：母亲的养育方式、口腔健康相关自我效能和口腔健康相关知识、家长报告的膳食糖消耗量、口腔卫生模式、牙科就诊模式和幼儿保育中心：干预后，干预组的母亲口腔健康相关知识、权威型养育方式、专制型养育方式和口腔健康相关自我效能、母亲报告的糖摄入量、甜饮料摄入量、刷牙频率、过去六个月的牙科就诊情况和接受治疗的情况均优于对照组：干预显示了改变幼儿保育家庭层面决定因素的潜力。

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Community dental health 医学-牙科与口腔外科

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

11.80%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal is concerned with dental public health and related subjects. Dental public health is the science and the art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health, and improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society. The discipline covers a wide range and includes such topics as: -oral epidemiology- oral health services research- preventive dentistry - especially in relation to communities- oral health education and promotion- clinical research - with particular emphasis on the care of special groups- behavioural sciences related to dentistry- decision theory- quality of life- risk analysis- ethics and oral health economics- quality assessment. The journal publishes scientific articles on the relevant fields, review articles, discussion papers, news items, and editorials. It is of interest to dentists working in dental public health and to other professionals concerned with disease prevention, health service planning, and health promotion throughout the world. In the case of epidemiology of oral diseases the Journal prioritises national studies unless local studies have major methodological innovations or information of particular interest.